Buffoonery

There are many sites on the web which amaze visitors because of general stupidity, lack of logic, or just plain detachment from reality. The sites listed below provide some sensible answers to the craziness. (You can see a collection of buffoons at The Millenium Project.)

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Australian Skeptics

Bad Psychics

Bad Psychics (Australia)

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

Carl Sagan's classic essay on the identification of nonsense.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (James Randi)

An online, searchable edition of Randi's classic collections of definitions of nonsense.

Humbug! Online - a blog for iconoclasts (Jef and Theo Clark)

Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. (Sir Thomas Browne)

Sir Thomas Browne's great 1646 treatise on fallible thinking and self-deception.

Refuting the Most Common Feminist Lies and Pseudo-Scholarship (Robert Sheaffer)

The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science (Robert Park)

The Skeptic's Dictionary (Robert T. Carroll)

"A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions"

The Skeptics Society (Michael Shermer)

SkepticWiki - the Encyclopedia of Science and Critical Thinking

"SkepticWiki is an encyclopedia, written from a sceptical point of view. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles, simply by clicking on the edit this page link. It runs on MediaWiki software".

Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes)

The Woo-Woo Credo

The rules you need to follow to be a genuine Internet woo-woo or kook.

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